Archive for the ‘Stuff’ Category

Like There’s No Tomorrow digipacks

Friday, October 7th, 2011

Just printed up a short run of these nice little card digipacks for Anthony from Large Mound‘s new project Like There’s No Tomorrow. Layout by Anthony, drawings by Sarah Bodil Hansen.

like there's no tomorrow large mound gav beattie screenprinting

International Puppet Festival Ireland 2011

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

international puppet festival ireland design by www.gavinbeattie.com

International Puppet Festival Ireland asked me to design their programme and promotional material again this year. The brochure just came back from the printer and turned out quite nice. This years Festival runs from 21st – 30th October.

international puppet festival ireland design by www.gavinbeattie.com

Elements – thank you prints

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Science Gallery Elements Micro Show Gav Beattie

I printed up a very limited run of these A4 prints for the Elements: Micro Show participating artists yesterday.

Science Gallery Elements Micro Show Gav Beattie

Limited edition of 36 (one each) matt gold and silver ink on black card. I also printed a couple on red card.

Science Gallery Elements Micro Show Gav Beattie

Come out to play…

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

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Another fine installment in the Hollywood Babylon poster series comes from The No-Good Wimp Suckahs (AKA WeThreeClub and Tom Lacey). I had the pleasure of printing these beauties last week and they turned out pretty nice I have to say. 2 colour print on cream A2 220gsm card, edition of 41. Available soon from Hollywood Babylon’s BigCartel page.

Warriors_hollywood_babylon_wethreeclub_tom_lacey_tinylittlehorse

CreAthletics logo design

Sunday, August 14th, 2011

I recently finished work on an identity for German journalist Sven Nitsche. Sven’s work covers mainly sports journalism but extends to a much wider field. My sister built Sven’s site and passed the logo work on to me, which was handy, especially considering I haven’t a word of German. Thanks sis!
gavin beattie creathletics logo design

Elements / Scrabble board print: ptI

Friday, July 15th, 2011

A couple of months ago I was asked by Science Gallery in Trinity College, Dublin if I would curate a small art show to run as part of their summer exhibition Elements: the beauty of Chemistry. The idea was to approach a number of Irish-based creative types and ask them to interprate one element from the Periodic Table in whatever way they saw fit. The response from the artists I approached was phenominal and in the end we received about 35 pieces to display and sell in the Science Gallery shop. More about the show in a separate post, but for now here’s a run down of my Scrabble-based print. This will eventually become a 7 colour screenprint and I’ll be doing a process step-by-step in a separate post.

gavin beattie science gallery screenprint

Here’s my thought process behind the piece:

“On the wall above the blackboard in Chemistry class at school hung a large print of the Periodic Table. Not being the most Chemistry-inclined of students my eye would wander to this chart and I would proceed to mentally re-arrange the letters of the Elements into different words.

 This exhibition presented the opportunity to realise my schoolboy mental game and what better form for it to take than Scrabble?

I printed out a copy of the table, cut out each individual element and commandeered the kitchen table for three days playing Elemental Scrabble. I would appeal to any Scrabble fans not to scrutinise my spelling too closely.”

gavin beattie science gallery scrabble print

Prints of Darkness

Friday, July 15th, 2011

gavin beattie screenprinted poster prince of darkness

The May 28th movie for Hollywood Babylon midnight movie club at Block T was John Carpenter’s apocalyptic horror “Prince of Darkness“. It was my turn to design a poster and here’s the result. The premonition/dream sequence really stood out for me and the image of the figure in the church doorway was just plain evil, despite being shot in broad daylight. A3 print on red card with matte gold and black ink. For sale now on Hollywood Babylon BigCartel page.

gavin beattie screenprinted poster prince of darkness

Facilities.ie logo design

Friday, June 24th, 2011

gavin beattie logo design facilities.ie

Facilities.ie is a local facilities management company “committed to providing the best facilities and property management services in Ireland, at the lowest possible costs to our clients.” I recently designed their logo and stationery suite for them. I also created a stencil version of the logo (for jetwashing!) – you might have seen these appear around Dublin over the last few weeks. Web design and build by Attik Designs.

gavin beattie logo design facilities.ie

Society poster / Hollywood Babylon

Saturday, May 14th, 2011

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The Second installment of Hollywood Babylon‘s Midnight Movie Film Club is 1989′s Society. Chris Judge illustrated this weeks poster. 2 colour print on brilliant white 350gsm card, edition of only 40. On sale at the venue and from tomorrow on the Hollywood Babylon Big Cartel page.

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Famine screenprinted LP covers

Friday, May 6th, 2011

Famine screenprint Gav Beattie

Dublin HC band Famine asked me to screenprint a very limited number of covers for their  LP “Shadows of the Past”. Nice, old school illustration by Claire Lennon. Printed 35 x red and 35 x black ink on 350gsm brilliant white card. Famine play tomorrow night (5/5/11) in Fibber’s with Bailout, Loose Nut, Bang Bros and Frustration. Record available for a tenner.

Famine screenprint Gav Beattie